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Sabbath's Theater is a novel by Philip Roth about the exploits of 64-year-old Mickey Sabbath. It won the 1995 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction . [1] The cover is a detail of Sailor and Girl (1925) by German painter Otto Dix .
- Philip Roth
- 1995
Jan 1, 2001 · Sabbath's Theater is a comic creation of epic proportions, and Mickey Sabbath is its gargantuan hero. At sixty-four Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free ...
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Sep 10, 1995 · The bare bones of character and story are as follows: Morris (Mickey) Sabbath, a 64-year-old ex-puppeteer with fingers now crippled by arthritis, has lived for decades in a rural New England ...
Nov 3, 2023 · “Sabbath’s Theater,” now playing at the Signature Center, is an adaptation of Philip Roth’s 1995 novel, which won the National Book Award. It’s the story of Mickey Sabbath (Turturro), a ...
- Alexis Soloski
Oct 25, 2023 · The New Group production of “Sabbath’s Theater,” adapted by John Turturro and Ariel Levy, leans into the novel’s frank depictions of unbounded lust and gleeful disloyalty. Vincent Tullo ...
Sabbath's Theater finds Roth on top form, challenging and sometimes reactionary, probing the angst of a generation. His hero, Mickey Sabbath, is a grotesque egotist whose career as a puppeteer is an analogue of his self-absorbed, control-freak nature.
- Philip Roth
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Philip Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater might seem to defy adaptation as much as it defies propriety. In this notorious 1995 novel, the life of Mickey Sabbath, a failed puppeteer in late middle age ...
